More English Fairy Tales, LXXV. Tamlane, sentence 8

He parallels the marriage of Peleus and Thetis in Apollodorus III., xiii., 5, 6, which still persists in modern Greece as a Cretan ballad.

Who acts: Tamlane · What happens: parallel, persist, marry · To what, where: marriage, Apollodorus, modern Greece, Peleus

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXV. Tamlane. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tamlane), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 parallels	nsubj
2	parallels	parallel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 marriage	det
4	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 parallels	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Peleus	case
6	Peleus	Peleus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 marriage	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Thetis	cc
8	Thetis	Thetis	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Peleus	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Apollodorus	case
10	Apollodorus	Apollodorus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 parallels	obl
11	III	III	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	10 Apollodorus	flat
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Apollodorus	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 xiii	punct
14	xiii	xiii	NUM	_	10 Apollodorus	flat
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 parallels	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 5	punct
17	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 parallels	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 6	punct
19	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 5	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 persists	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 persists	nsubj
22	still	still	ADV	_	23 persists	advmod
23	persists	persist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 6	acl:relcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 Greece	case
25	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Greece	amod
26	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 persists	obl
27	as	as	ADP	_	30 ballad	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 ballad	det
29	Cretan	Cretan	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 ballad	compound
30	ballad	ballad	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 persists	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 parallels	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	parallel	present	Tamlane	the marriage of Peleus and Thetis	Apollodorus			tree rules
2	persist	present			modern Greece	still	as a Cretan ballad	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in greece=Location
3	marry			Peleus and Thetis				nom marriage «state transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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